With all the fervor of late in righteously railing against carbon-based energy, you would think the environmental movement might pause to reconsider a moment about coal’s greatest enemy for the last 60 years: uranium.

If Indiana Jones were alive in the modern era, with the internet being what it is, mass produced sex robots on the near horizon, GMOs, zombies etc… He might long for a time machine so he could go back to a place and a time of simplicity.

Obama’s high-profile trip to Hiroshima was accompanied by a media storm that gave endless justifications for the US use of the atomic bomb on Japanese civilians. The myths are widely accepted in society, and underpin the notion of American exceptionalism.

It seems China is employing an electronic system to quantify how patriotic (i.e. obedient) its citizens are to the state. It takes the form of a game, and is based on real world data. It measures the patriotic merit of what you purchase online and post on social-media

North Korea claimed on Wednesday to have successfully carried out a hydrogen bomb test, a move that—if true—would mark a notable advance in the country’s nuclear capabilities and a significantly increased threat…

Via Next Big Future: The United Nations (UN) recently released population projections based on data until 2012 and a Bayesian probabilistic methodology. Analysis of these data reveals that, contrary to previous literature,…

Casey Halter via Hopes&Fears: Last January, one of Western China’s foremost HIV/AIDS advocates was arrested by the People’s Republic of China on charges of “endangering state security.” Human rights activists say no…

Gabriella Garcia via Hopes&Fears: In 1934, representatives from 26 countries gathered in Washington DC for the International Meridian Conference. The goal was to establish an official longitude—the Greenwich Meridian—off of which to…

As Western governments play a futile game of whack-a-mole with legal drugs, chemists in China are consistently synthesizing new, legal compounds to sell. Nicola Davison via The Guardian: The mass production of legal highs…

via Global Voices: This article and radio report by Ruth Morris for The World originally appeared on PRI.org on April 2, 2015, and is republished here as part of a content-sharing agreement. Gays and lesbians are getting…